The Daily Worker was a newspaper published by the Communist Party USA, a Comintern affiliated organization in New York, beginning in 1924. While it generally reflected the prevailing views of the party, attempts were made to make it a paper that reflected the spectrum of left-wing opinion. At its peak, the newspaper achieved a circulation of 35,000. Jump to: navigation, search The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) is one of several Marxist-Leninist groups in the United States. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Comintern (from Russian Коммунистичекий Интернационал (Kommunisticheskiy Internatsional) – Communist International), also known as the Third International, was an international Communist organization founded in March 1919 by Lenin, Trotsky and the Russian Communist Party (bolshevik), which intended to fight by all available means, including armed force, for the overthrow... Jump to: navigation, search 1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search Left wing is also a term used in several sports; see winger (sport). ... The word circulation can mean the following: The transport of blood through the circulatory system. ...

Popular Front changes

Beginning in the Popular Front period of the 1930s, when the party proclaimed that "Communism was Twentieth Century Americanism" and characterized itself as the heirs to the tradition of Washington and Lincoln, the paper broadened its coverage of the arts and entertainment. In 1935 it established a sports page, edited and frequently written by Lester Rodney. The paper's sports coverage combined enthusiasm with social criticism and is remembered for consistently advocating the desegregation of professional sports. Popular Fronts comprise broad coalitions of political and other groups, often made up of oppositioners or left wingers, and often united against particularly stringent circumstances. ... Jump to: navigation, search // Events and trends The 1930s were described as an abrupt shift to more radical lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the global depression. ... Jump to: navigation, search George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was an American planter, political figure, the highest ranking military leader in U.S. history and first President of the United States. ... Jump to: navigation, search Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865), sometimes called Abe Lincoln and nicknamed Honest Abe, the Rail Splitter, and the Great Emancipator, was the 16th President of the United States (1861 to 1865), and the first president from the Republican Party. ... Born April 17, 1911, in Manhattan, New York, the third of four children of Isabel Cotton and Max Rodney. ... Desegregation is the process of ending racial segregation, most commonly used in reference to the United States. ... Professional sports are sports in which the participants receive payment for playing, as opposed to amateur sports where they are not. ...

Post-WWII

The Daily Worker had constant financial and distribution problems. Many news stands and stores would not carry the paper. The intense anti-communism of 1950s McCarthyism intensified the paper's difficulties. The paper did not always behave as its opponents would expect. Jump to: navigation, search Anti-communism is the opposition to communist ideology, organization, or government, on either an ideological or pragmatic basis. ... Jump to: navigation, search // Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the height of the... Jump to: navigation, search McCarthyism took place during a period of intense suspicion in the United States primarily from 1950 to 1954, when the U.S. government was actively countering American Communist Party subversion, its leadership, and others suspected of being Communists or Communist sympathizers. ...

The membership of the American Communist Party had fallen to around 20,000 in 1956, when Khrushchev's speech to the 20th Congress of the CPSU on the personality cult of Stalin became known. The paper printed articles in support for the early stages of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Editor John Gates opened the paper for discussion, which seemed to promise either a revitalisation or a dissolution of the party. Jump to: navigation, search Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchof (Khrushchev) (Russian: Ники́та Серге́евич Хрущёв listen â–¶(?), April 17, 1894 â€“ September 11, 1971) was the leader of the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin. ... The Secret Speech is the common name of a speech given on February 25, 1956 by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev denouncing the actions of Josef Stalin. ... Adolf Hitler built a strong cult of personality, based on the Führerprinzip. ... Jump to: navigation, search Joseph Stalin â–¶(?) (Russian, in full: Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин (Josef Vissarionovich Stalin), real name: Иосиф Виссарионович Джугашвили (Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvilli), Georgian: იოსებ ჯუღაშვილი (Ioseb Jughashvili); December 6 (OS)/December 18 (NS), 1878 – March 5, 1953) was the leader of the Soviet Union from mid-1920s to his death in 1953 and General Secretary of the... Jump to: navigation, search Hungarians investigate a disabled Soviet tank in Budapest The 1956 Hungarian Revolution, also known as the Hungarian Uprising or simply the Hungarian Revolt, was an anti-Soviet revolt in Hungary lasting from 23 October to 4 November 1956. ... John Gates, born Solomon Regenstriet in New York City in 1913, was a prominent American Communist. ...

Despite dissension in the CPUSA, the paper finally endorsed Moscow's suppression of the uprising. In the disruptions that followed, about half of the remaining membership left the party, including Gates and many staff members of the Daily Worker.

The CPUSA was forced to cease publication of a daily paper, but the party survived. After a short hiatus, the party published a weekend paper called The Worker from 1958 until 1968. A Tuesday edition called The Midweek Worker was added in 1961 and also continued until 1968, when production was accelerated. According to ex-CIA agent Philip Agee, a large number of subscribers during this period were CIA agents or front companies linked to the CIA. Agee claimed that the CIA's funding in this manner prevented "The Worker" from ceasing publication. Jump to: navigation, search See CIA leak grand jury investigation The CIA Seal The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an American intelligence agency, responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. Government. ... Jump to: navigation, search Philip Burnett Franklin Agee (born 1936) is a former CIA agent and author who published a controversial book, Inside the Company: CIA Diary, detailing his experiences in, and the operation of, the eponymous agency. ...

In 1968 the Communist Party resumed publication of a New York daily paper, now titled The Daily World. In 1986, the paper merged with the Party's West Coast weekly paper, the People's World. The new People’s Daily World published from 1987 until 1991, when daily publication was abandoned. The Peoples Weekly World (PWW) is the newspaper of the Communist Party USA, and is the direct descendant of the Daily Worker. ...

The paper cut back to a weekly issue and was retitled People's Weekly World, which remains the paper of the Communist Party USA today. The Peoples Weekly World (PWW) is the newspaper of the Communist Party USA, and is the direct descendant of the Daily Worker. ...

External links

• Daily Worker FBI files. File number 61-275 Volume 5. Heavily redacted files from roughly 1948 - late 1950s. Retrieved May 16, 2005.

• Pete Seeger Appreciation Page Daily Worker articles on Pete Seeger from the 1930's and 1940's.

• Baseball on the Radical Agenda by Kelly E. Rusinack

• "A Sickening Red Tinge": The Daily Worker's Fight Against White Baseball by Kelly Rusinack and Chris Lamb. Cultural Logic, Volume 3, Number 1, Fall 1999. ISSN 10973087.

• An Interview with Lester Rodney. Counterpunch. Weekend Edition, April 3 / 5, 2004. Retrieved May 16, 2005.

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Further reading

Articles

• Fetter, Henry D. The Party Line and the Color Line: The American Communist Party, the Daily Worker and Jackie Robinson. Journal of Sport History 28, no. 3 (Fall 2001).

• Lamb, Christopher and Rusinack, Kelly E. Hitting From the Left: The Daily Worker's Assault on Baseball's Color Line. Gumpert, Gary and Drucker, Susan J., eds. Take Me Out to the Ballgame: Communicating Baseball. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2002.

• Rusinack, Kelly E. Baseball on the Radical Agenda: The Daily and Sunday Worker Journalistic Campaign to Desegregate Major League Baseball, 1933-1947. Dorinson, Joseph, and Woramund, Joram, eds. Jackie Robinson: Race, Sports, and the American Dream. New York: E.M. Swift, 1998.

• Smith, Ronald A. The Paul Robeson-Jackie Robinson Saga and a Political Collision. Journal of Sport History 6, no. 2 (1979).

Theses

• Evans, William Barrett. "Revolutionist Thought" in the Daily Worker, 1919-1939. Ph.D. diss. University of Washington, 1965.

• Jeffries, Dexter. Richard Wright and the ‘Daily Worker’: A Native Son’s Journalistic Apprenticeship. Ph.D. diss. City University of New York, 2000.

• Rusinack, Kelly E. Baseball on the Radical Agenda: The Daily and Sunday Worker on Desegregating Major League Baseball, 1933-1947. M.A. Thesis, Clemson University, South Carolina, 1995.

• Shoemaker, Martha Mcardell. Propaganda or Persuasion: The Communist Party and Its Campaign to Integrate Baseball. Master’s thesis. University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1999.

Books

• Hemingway, Andrew. Artists on the Left: American Artists and the Communist Movement, 1926-1956. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2002.

• Schnappes, Morris U. The Daily Worker, heir to the great tradition. Daily Worker, 1944.

• Silber, Irwin. Press Box Red: The Story of Lester Rodney, The Communist Who Helped Break the Color Line in American Sports. 248 pages. Temple University Press, August 1, 2003. ISBN 1566399742.